Movies Like Muriel's Wedding
If you liked Muriel's Wedding (1994), a comedy and drama movie directed by P.J. Hogan, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Chéri (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedyThe son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
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The Bachelors (2017)
★ 7/10Also comedy and dramaAfter the early death of his wife, a mourning father moves with his teenage son across the country for a private school teaching job. Their lives begin to transform due to two unique women, who help them embrace life…
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Love in Taipei (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also romance and comedyA young American woman is sent by her parents to a cultural immersion program in Taipei where she begins a new journey of self-discovery and romance.
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Happiness for Beginners (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedyAt a crossroads after her divorce, a schoolteacher ventures toward a fresh start in life — and love — when she signs up for a grueling group hiking trip.
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Still Breathing (1997)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaTwo lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsessed with. She resists, afraid of his…
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Smart People (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaProfessor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the…
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Submarine (2011)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and comedy15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to…
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaTwo married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling…
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Anywhere but Here (1999)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedySingle mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When Adele decides to…
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Eat Pray Love (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceA married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".
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Jersey Girl (2004)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romanceOllie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having…
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Just Friends (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romanceWhile visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with – a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.
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Coyote Ugly (2000)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaGraced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job…
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Love Everlasting (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also romance and dramaBridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.
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The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and dramaA down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past…
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I Met a Girl (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and dramaAn aspiring musician struggling with schizophrenia falls for a mysterious woman who may be all in his head. When she suddenly vanishes, he takes off on a cross-country journey across Australia to find her, forcing his…
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Other People's Money (1991)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and dramaWhen a corporate raider threatens a hostile takeover of a 'mom and pop' company, the patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's attractive daughter—who is a lawyer—to stop the takeover. However, the raider…
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Jerry Maguire (1996)
★ 7/10Also comedy and dramaJerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has…
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A California Christmas: City Lights (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and comedyFollows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph back to the city.
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Life in a Year (2020)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and romanceA 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.